Qudrat Ullah

  FOR a child growing up in poverty, education is often the first casualty of economic hardship. In Punjab’s urban slums and working-class neighbourhoods, children…

  PUNJAB’S Nawaz Sharif Schools of Eminence initiative is a welcome step towards making quality education accessible to children from low-income families. With 300 schools…

  GREEN streets, thriving parks and tree-lined public spaces are more than an aesthetic ambition; they are essential for healthier, more liveable communities. Punjab’s decision…

  Pakistan’s pink salt is among its most distinctive mineral resources, yet much of its economic potential remains untapped. Extracted largely as a raw mineral…

  PUNJAB Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s four-day visit to China was more than routine diplomacy. It was development diplomacy with a clear provincial goal:…

Pakistan observes 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal today as Pakistanis join Muslims worldwide in commemorating the birth of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The occasion carries a significance…

  HOW a country treats those who are different from its majority often says more about its character than how it celebrates its majority. That…

  WHEN Maryam Nawaz Sharif took the oath as Pakistan’s first woman chief minister of Punjab on Feb 26, 2024, she inherited the responsibility of…

  PUNJAB has embarked on one of its most consequential agrarian reforms in decades, transferring long-term cultivation rights over government-owned farmland to 30,000 landless families…

  PUNJAB is undertaking one of Pakistan’s most comprehensive prison reform programmes, seeking to transform correctional facilities from overcrowded places of detention into institutions that…